Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy knows well that unless we maintain the transmission system we will pay a heavy price for it.

On the Deputy's point on undergrounding, he is not correct in saying that undergrounding is the norm in Europe. The traditional overhead is still the norm and, as we have established elsewhere, the cost of undergrounding is approximately three and half times the cost of-----

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